Downlink Signaling to User Equipment in Non-3GPP Idle State
AssigneeNokia Technologies Oy
InventorsNicolas DREVON, Laurent THIEBAUT
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Abstract
A communication system includes a service responsible for sending signaling to a user equipment or an access network serving the user equipment. The service receives a request to send the signaling to the user equipment or the access network together with access type control information indicating whether the signaling is transmittable using any of a plurality of access types or a specific access type provided in the request. The service selectively forwards the signaling to the user equipment or the access network based on the access type control information.
Claims26
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a service responsible for sending signaling to a user equipment or an access network serving the user equipment, a request to send the signaling to the user equipment or to the access network together with access type control information indicating whether the signaling is transmittable using any of a plurality of access types or a specific access type provided in the request;
- and
- forwarding from the service the signaling to the user equipment or the access network based on the access type control information.
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A method comprising:
- receiving policy information indicating whether the policy information is applicable to any of a plurality of access types or a specific access type;
- and
- generating a request to send signaling to at least one of a user equipment or an access network together with access type control information indicating whether the signaling is transmittable using any of the plurality of access types or a specific access type.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receiving, at a service responsible for sending signaling to a user equipment or an access network serving the user equipment, a request to send the signaling to the user equipment or to the access network together with access type control information indicating whether the signaling is transmittable using any of a plurality of access types or a specific access type provided in the request;
- and
- selectively forwarding from the service the signaling to the user equipment or the access network based on the access type control information.
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An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code;
- the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform:
- receiving policy information indicating whether the policy information is applicable to any of a plurality of access types or a specific access type;
- and
- generating a request to send signaling to at least one of a user equipment or an access network together with access type control information indicating whether the signaling is transmittable using any of the plurality of access types or a specific access type.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.